Fw: Re: Fw: RC: endurance prospect, etc.

["Whitney Bass" <bass@bigsky.net>]

> From: Whitney Bass <bass@bigsky.net>
> To: Maggie Mieske <mmieske@netonecom.net>; ridecamp@endurance.net
> Subject: Re: Re: Fw: RC:  endurance prospect, etc.
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> 
> My friends finish ahead of me really pretty often -- do you honestly
think
> that I consider them "bad people"?  
> 
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> > From: Maggie Mieske <mmieske@netonecom.net>
> > To: bass@bigsky.net; ridecamp@endurance.net
> > Subject: Re: Re: Fw: RC:  endurance prospect, etc.
> > Date: Monday, February 07, 2000 6:30 PM
> > 
> > I wasn't implying that you were "scared" of winning...but your posts
did
> > remind me that for a while, not really realizing it (and I probably
still
> > am), I had lost so much confidence in myself and was so afraid of just
> > going faster (forget about winning!!!), that I wasn't allowing my horse
> to
> > do what he really was capable of doing. I was holding him back. Your
> choice
> > to hold your horse in check and not race is your choice, neither good
nor
> > bad.  As is the choice of those who DO choose to go faster and perhaps
> > "win"... don't get me wrong.  You aren't going to see me out there
> whipping
> > my horse across the finish line in an attempt to win (NOT THAT ANYONE
> > DOES!!!!!!)...but I am going to make a conscious effort to improve our
> > speed and performance this year ACCORDING TO OUR ABILITIES (notice that
I
> > said OUR because I feel I am a TEAM with my horse) and I hope that if I
> > cross the finish line before you, that I won't become a bad person.
> > 
> > 
> > Maggie Mieske
> > Mieske's Silver Lining
> > 10601 S. Richards Rd.
> > McBain, Michigan 49657
> > http://www.netonecom.net/~mmieske
> > mmieske@netonecom.net